July 17, 2002	Wednesday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 6, 1423

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Sewage contaminates irrigation water PESHAWAR, July 16: Irrigation channels passing through various residential localities of the city have turned into sewage lines, causing a water and soil pollution in the catchment areas....		Rallies held against irrigation officials KHAIRPUR, July 16: The growers of Khairpur District continued to hold protest demonstrations against the irrigation officials as four separate demonstrations were held in the district on Tuesday....
Promotion of cottage industry stressed PESHAWAR, July 16: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has stressed that the government organizations must avoid to indulge in business-oriented production activities....		Nazimeen boycott budget session SUKKUR, July 16: Eleven Nazimeen and five councillors of the Taluka Council, Pano Aqil, boycotted the budget session of the council and staged a demonstration accusing the taluka Nazim of violating...
Lifting of ban on timber trade urged ABBOTTABAD, July 16: Owners of forests in Hazara on Monday demanded lifting of ban on the cutting and sale of timber and legal cover to the business, especially of windfall wood....		Apca resents plan to send lower staff to surplus pool LARKANA, July 16: A group of the local Apca activists observed a token hunger strike here on Tuesday against the proposed plan of sending the lower staff to surplus pool....
Implementation of reforms demanded WANA, July 16: Speakers at a public meeting held in Makeen, South Waziristan Agency, on Monday demanded of the government to implement the proposed reforms and hold local government elections in...		Nazim irked by minister’s attitude BADIN, July 16: The district Nazim, Badin, Kamal Khan Chang, has regretted the attitude of the provincial local bodies minister against him. He said that he would not tolerate any insults...
Shopkeeper killed DERA ISMAIL KHAN, July 16: A shopkeeper was shot dead over a property dispute at Panyala Bazaar allegedly by his rivals on Sunday....		Seminar on women uplift MIRPURKHAS, July 16: A one-day seminar on the problems of women councillors was held on Tuesday at the Citizens Gymkhana Club by the Citizens Action Committee (CAC) with the collaboration of...
SC admits APNS plea for hearing: Wage Board Award ISLAMABAD, July 16: Justice Munir A. Sheikh, senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court, set aside on Tuesday the order of the court’s registrar who had returned the petition of the...		Three ‘international’ kidnappers arrested QUETTA, July 16: Balochistan Police arrested three members of an international kidnappers’ gang on Tuesday and recovered an Iranian from their custody in Kanak, Mastung District, some 100km southwest from here....
DPs agree to move to new settlements ISLAMABAD, July 16: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been told that some of the Afghan refugees stranded for months in harsh conditions at the Pakistan border are...		Surakhvi sworn in as CJ MUZAFFARABAD, July 16: Justice Muhammad Yunus Surakhvi was sworn in as acting CJ of AJK Supreme Court of Azad Kashmir on Tuesday....
Lightning kills one, hurts five MUZAFFARABAD, July 16: A teenager died and five others received burn wounds when lightening struck a remote village in Neelum valley in northeast of Muzaffarabad, a police officer said here on...		Comprehensive plan to revamp education FAISALABAD, July 16: Governor Khalid Maqbool said on Tuesday a comprehensive plan had been chalked out to revamp the education system....
Imam denies issuing decree against US national FAISALABAD, July 16: A Jaranwala blasphemy case accused on Tuesday denied issuance of any decree against US national Afraz Jawed and leading attack on his in-laws’ house....		Police hold seven people guilty: Meerwala gang-rape MULTAN, July 16: Muzaffargarh police have held seven people responsible in the Meerwala gang-rape. Of them six have been nominated by the complaints while seventh is the Jatoi police ASI....
Two teams to track down child traders FAISALABAD, July 16: The district police have constituted two special teams for tracing the arrested gangsters’ accomplices involved in the trade of children and for the recovery of the victims which...		Stray dogs injure five GUJRANWALA, July 16: Six stray dogs attacked and injured five people in the district coordinating officer’s secretariat park here on Tuesday....
3 die on road JHANG, July 16: Three people were killed in separate road accidents in the district during the last 24 hours. Reports said youth Noor Muhammad was crushed by the wagon he tried...		Over four million die of smoking annually: experts ISLAMABAD, July 16: More than four million people die of smoking or tobacco-related diseases every year in the world and if timely measures are not taken, the number will increase to...
CDA registers Rs150m deficit in property tax ISLAMABAD, July 16: A shortfall of Rs150 million was registered with the revenue directorate of Capital Development Authority (CDA), due to poor recovery during the fiscal year 2001-2002, sources told Dawn...		PEPA opposes Margalla chairlift plan ISLAMABAD, July 16: Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (PEPA) has opposed the installation of chairlift at Margalla Hills, an official of the agency told Dawn on Tuesday....
UGC issues list of degree awarding institutions ISLAMABAD, July 16: The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Tuesday issued a list of universities and institutions which are chartered to award degrees by the federal and provincial governments....		Two brothers shot dead in Sihala ISLAMABAD, July 16: Two brothers were shot dead in the early hours of Tuesday in Sihala, police said....
Villagers to stage rally at foundation laying ceremony ISLAMABAD, July 16: Inhabitants of village Siri Saral and Pind Sangrial have decided to stage a protest on the occasion of foundation stone laying ceremony of sector D-12 by the CDA...		Water level rises at Rawal Dam ISLAMABAD, July 16: Water level in Rawal Dam, one of the main water reservoir for the residents of Rawalpindi rose to 1,734 feet on Tuesday....
PPP not to boycott polls, says Qasim LAHORE, July 16: The PPP is not thinking of boycotting the general elections and is, instead, making preparations to contest and win maximum seats, party’s provincial president Qasim Zia said on...		Pakhtoon refugees ‘reluctant’ to go back LAHORE, July 16: Afghan Pakhtoons living the country are reluctant to return to their homeland owing to a volatile environment over there....
Nawaz Khokhar’s offer rejected by bank LAHORE, July 16: The United Bank informed an accountability court on Tuesday that the 150 kanal pledged land would be released if the former deputy speaker of the National Assembly, Haji...		Govt comments sought in Atlantique case LAHORE, July 16: A Lahore High Court appellate bench sought comments from the federal law secretary and the attorney-general within a month about the processing of the Atlantique case for filing...
Scholarships for workers’ children LAHORE, July 16: Some 4,000 talent scholarships amounting to Rs50 million have so far been distributed among workers’ children by the Punjab Workers Welfare Fund....		Milkman’s family ‘resigned to helpless death’ LAHORE, July 16: The family of a milkman whose five children had died in the last three months from what the family believed black magic is living in a ‘constant danger’....
Robbers kill oil dealer LAHORE, July 16: Two robbers shot dead an oil dealer on Bund Road in Khokhar Town on Tuesday....		Passengers to be monitored, says Moin LAHORE, July 16: Interior Minister Lt-Gen Moinuddin Haider (retired) said on Tuesday the government had provided computers at the Karachi airport as a pilot project to monitor and develop a database...
Excise Dept exceeds recovery target LAHORE, July 16: Finance Minister Tariq Hamid claimed on Tuesday that the Excise and Taxation Department had collected Rs4.6 billion taxes during the last fiscal year, exceeding the Rs4.5 billion budgetary...		Leaguer’s bail plea dismissed LAHORE, July 16: A division bench of the Lahore High Court dismissed on Tuesday Pakistan Muslim League’s former Punjab secretary-general Rana Nazir’s petition for release on bail....